-Caveat Lector-
"TSG wasn't the only outfit interested in Bush booze leads. A Harvard
Crimson reporter, Parker Conrad, had pursued the story ... Conrad's story
was eventually shelved by the daily's managing editor on the grounds that
Bush was a private figure."
ht://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml
Fourteen months before underage booze antics made headlines, Barbara Bush,
then 18, was questioned by Massachusetts cops responding to a manager's
complaint that a raucous February 2000 party at a hotel on Harvard Square
involved "several minors in a room consuming alcohol," The Smoking Gun has
learned.
According to a Harvard University Police Department log, the manager of the
university-owned The Inn at Harvard called cops on February 19 at 11:18 PM
complaining about the booze blast. The log notes that, "Officers sent to
assist him in removing them." Cops prepared an incident report detailing
what happened upon their arrival, but Harvard refused last week to release
the document following a TSG request, contending that the Massachusetts
Open
Records Law does not apply to the school's police force.
But we've been able to piece together this account of the incident through
interviews and information from the Harvard police log:
While her father was gearing up for a Super Tuesday (March 7) showdown with
John McCain, Barbara Bush spent her President's Day weekend in Cambridge,
Massachusetts visiting Harvard University. Along with Yale and Stanford,
the
teenager had been accepted at Harvard, where she visited that holiday
weekend in preparation for making her college pick. The teenager stayed in
the dorm room of Harvard freshman Tabitha George, who Bush knew from
Austin,
Texas.
The president's daughter crossed paths that weekend with Harvard cops
responding to the Saturday night call about underage drinking at The Inn at
Harvard, where rooms rent for an average of about $200 and visiting
dignitaries are more common that rowdy beer blasts. As in Texas, you must
be
21 to drink in Massachusetts.
Aware that police had been summoned to the hotel, young partygoers fled the
room. When officers arrived, they questioned a small group of young people
outside the inn--all of whom they suspected had attended the truncated
bash.
Cops were directed to the group, which included Barbara Bush, either by the
hotel's manager or by one of the room's occupants, who had been detained
(accounts provided to TSG slightly differed on this point). No arrests were
made after police questioned and sought identification from about five
individuals.
TSG calls to the Harvard police were referred to school spokesman Joseph
Wrinn, who said, "We don't comment on the specifics in regards to incidents
involving the Harvard University Police Department." George also refused to
answer any questions, saying she did not comment "about the Bushes."
The Smoking Gun spoke to George last September, shortly after we first
heard
about the underage hotel bash. A Harvard source provided us with the
outline
of the story--Barbara Bush's alleged involvement, the party date, that the
bash occurred in a Cambridge hotel--and we went in search of documents to
confirm the account. TSG first reviewed logs maintained by the Cambridge
Police Department, but located no record remotely matching the details we
had.
Then we contacted Peggy McNamara, spokesperson for the Harvard University
Police Department, and asked her to check police logs for February 19,
2000.
We told her we were looking for an incident late that evening involving
underage drinking at a Cambridge hotel. McNamara called back to say that
nothing in the department's records matched our information. TSG then put
the story on the back burner.
We revisited the Harvard tip last week in light of Bush's no contest plea
for the Chuy's bust and the disclosure that Barbara, a Yale freshman, had a
phony ID confiscated in October when she tried to use it at a New Haven
bar.
This time, when we called the Harvard cops they turned over (on June 8) log
pages recording the hotel party involving "several minors." We're waiting
to
hear how they overlooked the entry when we first asked about it in
September
2000.
As it turned out, TSG wasn't the only outfit interested in Bush booze
leads.
A Harvard Crimson reporter, Parker Conrad, had pursued the story, which
appeared headed for the student newspaper. But while publication was
supported by many at the Crimson--including some of the paper's top
executives--Conrad's story was eventually shelved by the daily's managing
editor on the grounds that Bush was a private figure.
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